Thread by @KurtBusiek

I see people saying that if somehow Joe Biden weren’t inaugurated, like he was arrested by the secret non-Deep-State that Trump’s secretly Q-mmanding, then Kamala Harris couldn’t be president because she would have nver been VP, so Trump would win!

Oy.

First off, if Biden were somehow incapacitated — even if he died — Harris would be inaugurated as President. That’s what she was elected for.
Second, if the winner of the election is somehow taken out of things, they don’t award the presidency to the loser as a consolation prize.

Trump lost. His term ends on the 20th. He’s not “president in perpetuity until they inaugurate someone else.” He was elected to a term, and the term ends.

Even if Biden and Harris were both killed, kidnapped or revealed to be aliens from Io, the election wouldn’t go to Trump.

There’s some disagreement as to what exactly would happen, because it hasn’t happened before and hasn’t been tested, but what the succession laws seem to say is that if Biden and Harris were both unavailable, we’d be looking at President Pelosi.

Not “Trump 2."

His term ends. He doesn’t get to keep it in the absence of an elected successor. We have succession laws, and “defeated candidate” is not one of the options.

These people are so fucking stupid.